Usually means: Rapid alternation between two notes.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word trill:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. trill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trill: Merriam-Webster
  3. trill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trill: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trill, trill: Wordnik
  8. trill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trill: Wiktionary
  10. trill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trill: Dictionary.com
  14. trill (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TRILL (Computer Networking), TRILL (computing), TRILL, Trill (Star Trek), Trill (The Legend of Zelda), Trill (album), Trill (music), Trill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trill: Rhymezone
  20. Trill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. trill: FreeDictionary.org
  23. trill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. trill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Trill: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trill (disambiguation), trill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trill (disambiguation), trill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. TRILL: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. trill, trill, trill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. trill: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
noun:  (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
noun:  A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
verb:  (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
verb:  (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To twirl.
adjective:  (slang, hip-hop culture) True, respected.

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